Index clip and label.



No. 847,593. PATENTED 'MAR. 19, 190'? L. M. MORDEN.

INDEX CLIP AND LABEL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.17, 1906.

N TE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUCENA nanonnnn, OF WATERBURYyCONNECTICUT.

INDEX CVLIP'AND LABEL.

'of index-clips which are designed. for attachment to the ethics of book-leaves, as well as to the edges of cards and loose sheets combined in a binder or other receptacle in which the cards, sheets, or leaves lie substantially in contact with one another, and the invention furnishes a clip wl'iichn'iay be made of one piece of thin sheet metal and adapted to occupy'very little space where it is crowded between the leaves or sheets.

" The clip is formed with two folded flaps to embrace the edge offlt-he sheet or card and provided with two pairs of label-holdingjaws, one'of the jaws in each pair having a lip which extends across the outer end of the other'jaw, thus forming with the fold oi. the

- flaps a restricted space within which a label of corresponding width can be slid between the opposed jaws. The lips upon the jaws prevent the label from .slipping'outwardly, and thus retain itsecurely in place. U in practice the space between -the'pairs of labelholding jaws is. made olsul'licient length to exhibit the inscription required upon the label, and thelabel need not,"therefore, project beyond the'ends'or sides of the jaws in any .direction, and is thus not liable to displace- 'Inent by contact with any external object.

The invention will be understood by reference to the annexed drawing, in which-- Figure 1 is an edge view of the device applied to the edge. of a loose sheet or card.

. one corner..

tached from theshee't or card.

.the same with a tab ig. 2 is a perspective view of the device de- I r Fig. 3 represents the clips. plied to the edge of a card at 4 is a plan, and Fig. 5 an edge view, of't he;..sheet-1netal blank 'from which the clip is] formed. Fig. 6 is a side view, and Fig. 7 an end view, of the blank "folded once before the arms for the tab are--- upturned. Fig. 8 shows the finished clip in readiness to receive the tab and Fig. 9 shows artly inserted in the tab-holding jaws, the otted lines a: a: in Fig. I

i I Specification of Letters Patent.

- the outer end of the o posi-te jaw and covers is proportioned to furnish the room' neces- ..bel, as indicated Patented March 1 9, ,1907.

' nineteen filed February 17,1906. Serial No. 301, 89,

6 indicating the point for turning'np the tabvholding, jaws.

a designates two flaps united by a fold b and adapted to claspthe edge of a sheet or leaf f. as shown in Fig. 1. The fold b is ex tended beyond the ends of the flaps a, and tongues c are extended from both sides of the fold at theends of the he s to form tab-holdint, jaws, which when out outwardly, as shown in Fig. 8, stand in pairs opposed to one another and extend beyond the edges ofthe fold and serve to support a card or slip of matcrial to form the tab or label e,'on which any suitable inscription can be made. Such tab is held elastically between the jaws, which are marked 0 c" in Fig. 8. The jaws at one side of the fold are made a little longer than those upon thcother side and [(illllCd'mtCl'l with a bent lip (1, which serves to embrace loosely the opening between t e same. The jaws are shaped to lit at their bases close to the fold b and to spring: elastically toward one another where they extend outwardly beyond the fold, as shown in Fig. 1;, and the tab or label is shaped to fit between the fold and the lip, as shown in this figure.

.The ca acity for holding a tab or label is restricts to the space between the lip d and the fold b; but a label of width corresponding to such spaceoah be slid between the jaws and secured thereby, as shown in Fig. 2,' without projecting at either end from the same. The space between the pairs of jaws sary forlthe required inscription upon the labythe word Maine in Figs. 2 and 3;

Inspection of Fig. 2 shows that the clip' is adapted to hold-the label without any'portion of the label projecting outside-of the holding-jaws, and the label is therefore protected from contact with an external object by which it could be disp aced.

The flaps a have their edges bent toward one another, as shown in Fig. 2, to elasticall grip the edge of a/ sheet or card, and the ape. and jaws constitute the metallic clip, whlcn may be applied to the edge'of a sheet or card by: first inserting a corner of the sheet in the s ace it between the fia s and then slidingt e clip to an desire ,point upon thesame. The edge 0 the sheet is extended intothe fold b, as shown in Fig. 1, and

1 as the tab is in contact with theouter side of 1 IO- slightly 1 o sheet metal, with the flaps a united by the fold. b to embrace the edge of a sheet or card, =endthe opposed tongues 0 formed at the ends of flaps and bent outwardly beyond the ioldfithe tongues; being bent at their bases closoto thefold rind one of the tongues in each airbein made of reater len th' than the other, withathe lip d bent therefrom tra ns versely aeross the end of the opposed tongue, thusforming the label-holding j ztws c and 0 ing widthf' 'ZJL Aninde -clip formed in one piece of sheet metel with the flaps a united by the foldlbto -embrn-oe' the edge of a sheet oroerd, and the oppowd tongues ciornied at the ends-of the-flaps and bent outwardly beyond. the folh-ao "make witli-the edge of the 3.. An i'ndegeelip formed in one piece of" airs of label-holding j ewe cenci c iviththe he a upon one of each pair 1 of- -thejeivs e'rctenoed over the end of the other jaw in combinetien with the label 0 l fitted between the fold b and the lip and rel movable by sliding endwise between the said jMVS.

sheet metal with the flaps a united by the fold Z) to embrace the edge of a sheet or card, and the opposed tongues a formed at the ends of the flaps and bent outwardly beyond the fold, to make two FtlIS Of label-holding i 'jews c and c with the hp (1 upon onev of each pair of the jaws extended. over the end ol the .j other jaw, in' ooinbinatio'n with the label 0 i fitted between the fold band the lip d, the f space between the two pairs of labe1-holding jaws being proportioned. to ex lwse all of the Wltllfi definite cspecity between the fold I; and the lip d, to're ceiv e a lstbel of eorrespond-' l inscriptions desiredn on the the], and the l ehds 'of the label who y inclosed within the jaws to prevent contact with surrounding oh- 1 geets. l In testimony whereof I. have hereunto set l my hand in the presence of two subscribing i witnesses. l LUCENA M. MOhDlCN.

, Witnesses:

CLARA L. Donne, ANNA MCDONALD.

3. An index-clip formed in one piece of 

